Art Quote by Common Download Open image “I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.” — Common ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Came Chicago I came Make Rap Rap artist Side South Videos Wanting
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I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
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Raised by game where niggas ain't phased by fame. Come to the crib, get banged, they take your chain. — Common Copy Share Image
He demeanor of the Ghetto, to never stay settled. Aldermen and corrupt men play Pharaoh. — Common Copy Share Image
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. — Common Copy Share Image
This is street radio, for unsung heroes. Riding in they regal, trying to stay legal. — Common Copy Share Image
Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow… — Common Copy Share Image
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it… — Common Copy Share Image
Every song you make Joe is really hoe music. I heard you said you wasn't a bitch because you sing. You a bitch because… — Common Copy Share Image
I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you… — Common Copy Share Image
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that -… — Common Copy Share Image
The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing.… — Common Copy Share Image
God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge… — Common Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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